Web builder & frontend developer

Just Another Cluster #1

09 November 2015

Welcome to the first ever issue of the Weekly Cluster.

I decided that it's time to put together a list of useful tools, interesting articles, that I find during a week. Weather it's a cool new CSS tool, a wonderfully written article by @SaraSoueidan or a masterfully crafted pen by @anatudor, I'm going to share it.

This is how we're going to do this: I'm going to gather the stuff I mentioned above, make a list, write a few words about each one of them and then share it with the world. You don't have to subscribe to any newsletter or any of that jazz.

If you, for example find any interesting tools or articles that I might have missed, let me know in the comments below and I'll share them in the next weekly cluster.

Gulp for Beginners
If you're a beginner with Gulp (you know, that tool all your developer friends now use to optimise their .js files) then you might want to checkout this great intro tutorial on CSS Tricks.

Is it maintained?... that is the questions: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer - The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Check if open source projects are still maintained.

How to Keep Web Animations From Slowing You Down?
Have you ever thought about how you can keep web animations from slowing your app down? Jordan Wade has and he come to some interesting conclusions that you might want to consider when building or rebuilding your app.

clipboard.js
Is a modern approach to copy text to clipboard because it uses no Flash, no dependencies and it's just 2kb. Yes, just 2kb. You know what else is 2kb, your old dial-up connection.

Chrome Devtools Tips & Tricks
You think you know how to use Chrome DevTools? Think again. For eg. did you know that you can jump to a specific file, by name, using ctrl-p?

httpie: A CLI http client that will make you smile
httpie is a command-line http client, much like cURL or wget. Written entirely in Python (using requests for the backend and pygments for syntax highlighting) and above that it's working on multiple platforms.